Cecil E. A. Rawle (27 March 1891 – 9 June 1938)[1] was a Dominican barrister, activist and father of Pan-Caribbeanism, who is honoured as Dominica's first national hero.
[2] Rawle was born in Roseau, Dominica, where his Trinidadian parents, William Alexander Romilly Rawle and Elsie Elizabeth Sophia Garrett, had moved;[2] his father was head of the local branch of the West India and Panama Telegraph Company, the precursor of Cable and Wireless.
The most radical change of all perhaps, is the proposal that the Governor General and in similar manner the Officers administering the Island Governments shall not have the power to disregard the advice of their Executive Councils.
In Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and even little Malta, the officers administering the Government act upon the advice of their Executive Councils.
"[4]In 1937, Rawle was appointed Attorney General of the Leeward Islands and moved to Antigua, where he died suddenly the following year, at the age of 47.